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SQUIER TAYLOR, OF SEASOALE, COUNTY OF OUMBERLAND, ENGLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,553, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed July 21,1887. Serial No. 244,907. (No model.) Patented in England April 20, 1887, No. 5,762.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SQUIRE TAYLOR, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Seascale, in the county of Cumberland, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Saws, (pat ented to me in Great Britain and Ireland by Letters Patent No. 5,7 52, April 20, A. D. 1887,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct an improved saw which can be used in positions where it is inconvenient or impossible to use an ordinary handsaW-say, for instance, in the case of a skirting-plug driven in the wall, which requires to be cut off flush with the wall-and in other circumstances where the space for the hand is limited; and I preferably so construct the saw Without interfering with its use for ordinary purposes, and so that it is both righthand7 and left hand.77

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view, and Fig. 2 a top view,v of the handle end of an improved saw illustratingthisinvention. Fig. is a fragmentary top view with the cap-plate removed. Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively a side view and a top view illustrating modifcations, and Fig. 6 is a small scale top view illustrating an additional modification.

Like letters -of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

In performing my invention I preferably form the saw-handle in two parts a and ZJ, as illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3, such parts a and b being hinged together by a hinge-joint c c, so that the grip part b may be turned at any desired angle With regard to the blade d-say, for instance, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, or as shown in Fig. 3and in order to lock or iix the two parts with suf ficient rigidity at the required angle I arrange a sliding bolt e in the one part Zi, taking into one of a series of notches f, formed in the other part u, as illustrated by Fig. 3. The bolt e is pressed upward bya-frictional spring e', (seen dotted in Fig. 1,) placed beneath the bolt, and I draw back or project the said bolt at will by means of a projecting finger-piece or thumb-piece g. I am thus enabled to use the saw with either the right or the left hand, as may be most convenient, and with the blade in either case perfectly parallel with and close to a wall, skirting, or any flush surface.

Instead of hinging the handle I can binge the saw-blade itself, as illustra-ted by Figs. i and 5, in which d2 represents the blade, c2 the hinge-joint, and h2 the handle.

The locking-bolt, as represented at e2, Figs. i and 5, may also engage with teeth f2, as equivalents of notches, and may be projected by a pushing-spring s, as shown in the same figures,without departing from this invention; or the saw may be made with a iiXedly-bent blade d3, as illustrated by Fig. G, in which figure h3 represents the handle and a permanent bend of the required angle inthe blade itself, and the dotted lines at d represent an opposite projection of the effective portion of Vthe blade, or the blade proper, suited for lefthand work.

Other like modilications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

I am aware of the devices set forthin United States Letters Patent No. 151,818, issued June 9,1874. to G. Abrams; No. 262,821, issued August 15, 1882, to J. Ohlen, and No. 302,183, issued July 15, 188i, to J. Q. Adams, Jr., and hereby disclaim the same as forming no part of my invention. My improved saws are distinguished from the patented devices alluded to in that in each caseI provide a handsaw with a straight blade projecting, when in use, in a plane other than that occupied by the handle. Furthermore, myim proved saws are especially designed and adapted, as before stated, for sawing off plugs close to or flush with a Wall, which is a purpose not contemplated by, nor possible with, either of said patented devices.

I claim as my invention- 1. A handsaw having a straight blade or blade portion, which when in use projects bodily out of the plane of the handle, substantially as herein specified, for the purpose set forth.

2. A handsaw having a hinge joint the axis of which is transverse with reference to the blade, and provided with means, substantially as described, for locking said joint, roo

whereby its blade may he adjusted at will to project bodily outof the plane of the handle, for the purpose Set forth.

3. The Within-described handsaw having a handle in two parts united by a hinge-joint which is transverse with reference to the blade, and provided with a sliding boltand with loeking-notehes in and on both sides of a `given line, whereby the' blade may he ad justed at will to project on either side of the 1o plane of the handle or in line therewith, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I ai'lix my signature to the foregoing Specification.

SQUIRE TAYLOR. \\'itnesses:

.Toi-IN G. WILSON, JAS. L. EWTX. 

